News 5/19/13 Award Winners
Via File 770, SFSignal,and just about every other genre-covering outlet – three award milestones were reached over the weekend – the Nebula, the Aurealis and the Spectrum Fantastic Art award. Congrats to all of the […]
Psychics are Dark Fantasy
I remember being uncomfortable about the “psionics” in Dungeons and Dragons back when I was a kid. Psychic powers seemed more appropriate in science fiction than fantasy. I mean, we had Mr. Spock’s mind meld […]
Michael A. Burstein: Library Trustee
Michael A. Burstein, award-winning SF author, father of twins,. purportedly excellent husband, is now also a 4-time elected Library Trust for the city of Brookline Mass. Congrats Michael – and congratulations on garnering more votes […]
Amazing Stories Top Posts of April 2013
More Sci Fi Shows To Hit Screens in 2013 Interview With A Wizard: Mike Top Ten RPG Game Systems of All Time Jack Vance Visions of a Dying Earth A Way To End Ebook Piracy […]
From the In Box 4/28/13
Tony C Smith from StarshipSofa sent along the following: Live Video Writers Workshop with Mike Resnick and Paul Di Filippo 16th June 2013 UK Greenwich Mean Time 17:00 Eastern Standard Time (EST) 12:00 Central […]
From the In Box 4/25/2013
Clarion West Receives $10,000 NEA Art Works Grant Seattle,WA—The National Endowment for the Arts announced today that Clarion West will receive a $10,000 Art Works grant to support its six week summer workshop and its […]
From the In Box 4/19/13
Mather offers .99 cent deal on Cyberstorm Larry Tucker – Send Letters, Look for Tapes Matthew Mather, author of Cyberstorm, currently the number 1 novel in Amazon’s Techno-Thriller category, is on sale for a limited […]
TWO NEW FEATURES COMING TO AMAZING STORIES and AMAZING STORIES GOES BILINGUAL!
The Experimenter Publishing Company and Amazing Stories are pleased to announce that beginning in May of 2013, two new bi-monthly features will be coming to the pages of Amazing Stories! SPACE ART Space Art – […]
From the In Box 4/18/13
StarShipSofa LiveCast KGB Reading Angry Robot’s Strange Chemistry Signs Sarah Raughley Via Facebook: the accented Tony C reminds us that – Live Online In Video: An Audience with SF legends… Larry Niven – Jerry Pournelle […]
From the In Box: Oblivion Already Taking Hits
The latest Tom Cruise vehicle – Oblivion – has hit the theaters outside the US and is apparently doing fairly well – at the Box Office. It’s also doing fairly well as a punching bag […]
From the In Box 4/15/13
John Scalzi reminds us that today is the last day to vote for the Locus Awards. You can read his reminder and vote here. ANYONE can vote; subscribers to Locus get more weight behind their […]
Epic Fantasy Analysis April 8, 2013
This is the sixth in the series and is from data as of 4/08/2013. Links to review previous data: 01/03/2013 01/24/2013 02/17/2013 03/03/2013 03/14/2013 As always this data comes from the Amazon Kindle Epic Fantasy Bestseller […]
From the In Box 4/13/13
Thanks to the Chums on Fictionmags (an invite group), this article in Popular Mechanics features a house designed and built by the author of And He Built A Crooked House. Yes, Robert A. Heinlein’s dream […]
Amazing News, Friday, April 12, 2013
The Eaton Science Fiction Conference at UC Riverside commenced yesterday; Amazing Stories has been carrying advertising for the program for the past several months. This years headliners are Larry Niven, David Brin and Gregory Benford […]
From the In Box 4/12/2013
The International Board on Books for Young People is proud to announce the 2014 Jury and the candidates for the Hans Christian Andersen Awards. The Hans Christian Andersen Award is the highest international distinction given […]
From the In Box
Mexican Author Verónica Murguía Wins Spanish Great Angular SM Literary Award Tax Evaders Video Game The Mexican writer Verónica Murguía has won the Great Angular SM award with her YA fantasy novel, LOBA (Wolf). She is […]
From the In Box – Cassandra Rose Clarke, Elizabeth Bear, Andy Duncan, Black Science Fiction Society
Angry Robot Signs James A. Moore Strange Chemistry Signs Cassandra Rose Clarke Elizabeth Bear and Andy Duncan accept appointment to the jury for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Black Science Fiction Society Announes Project Stargazer […]
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At Long Last…Centuries in the Making!….Like Nothing Ever Seen Before!…..For the First Time Ever!….Is This the Beginning of the End?…or is it just THE END OF THE BEGINNING!?! Da Da DAAAAAAAAAAA! Almost from our opening […]
Amazing News
Only one item today: Your’s truly was interviewed by the prestigious StarShipSofa and its enormously enthusiastic host Tony C. Smith this past Tuesday (at the ungodly hour of 6 am no less). The interview appears […]
From the In Box Too/Two
“SHOULD YOU BE BLACKLISTED, MR. CARD?” The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art New York, NY Share this event: Wednesday Apr 10, 2013 7:00 PM – Wednesday Apr 10, 2013 9:00 PM | $12.00 “SHOULD YOU […]
From the In Box: Iain Banks Has Cancer
Update below. via Facebook and SFX, today we learned the sad news that Iain M. Banks has late-stage gall bladder cancer. Iain has written a letter to his fans and readers that you can see […]
Top Posts from March & Other Amazing Cool Stuff
Today, on April 1st – and this is no joke – Amazing Stories crosses the 500 posts line. Congratulations to all of our contributors. If you would really like to thank them, pay a visit […]
From the – We ARE Living In A Science Fiction World – Department
When those who are critical of science fiction’s predictive powers – or seeming lack thereof – are searching for a pithy sentence with which to punctuate their position, they often resort to an annoying little […]
From the In Box
Our own Michael Brotherton (sky seer!) has been conducting the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for a number of years now. The program recently lost its funding from NASA (thank you sequestration) and is looking into […]
Amazing News, Saturday, March 30, 2013
From the Should Posted This Before Department: The New York Review of Science Fiction presents David Hartwell’s list of 200 SIGNIFICANT SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS BY WOMEN – 1984 – 2001. Mr. Hartwell is an […]
IT’S (NOT) ROCKET SCIENCE: Junk Food Junkies
This post has been removed because its content may be incorporated into a forthcoming book by the author. To find more articles by Jack Clemons, go here. Information about Jack’s new book will be forthcoming.
Amazing News, Thursday, March 28th 2013
NOTE: Unless otherwise noted, articles linked to here are sourced from SF Signal and File 770. One of my all-time heroes gets a “non-action” figure all to himself. Forrest J. Ackerman, Science Fiction’s #1 Fan, […]
Amazing News, Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Irish Times on The New Future of SF via SF Signal Interesting piece on one of my faves – Cordwainer Smith – in the Atlantic. (via SF Signal) Technology outstrips society and the law once […]
Amazing News, Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Those who think that re-booting the original Star Trek was a good idea will probably think that the latest Star Trek Into Darkness promo is also a good idea: a bunch of drones carrying light […]
Amazing News, Monday, March 25, 2013
Via Huffingtonpost – The Most Detailed Map of the Internet to Date Hacker’s “broke in” to about half a million devices worldwide to create the most detailed map of internet usage to date. Want to […]
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